Matt Brezina is a Schreyer Scholar graduate, a member of our External Advisory Board member, founder of Xobni and now Postagram. Oh, and a real mensch! He has some very interesting thoughts about how to become an entrepreneur. For those not familiar with Y Combinator start at their site: http://ycombinator.com/ I’ve […]
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Just see how far car safety has come in 50 years. A 1959 Chevy Bel Air crashed into a 2009 Chevy 2009.
I have been asked by the good folks from SBL’s Student Advisory Board to present a paper/lead a discussion on how graduate students and recent PhD’s can best use social media (and what to avoid). I wonder what you think of this for a title and abstract? “On the Internet […]
You may have read my “modest proposal for assessing digital biblical studies.” My focus there was on issues relating primarily to promotion and tenure, the coin of the realm for academia, and how we as a discipline can properly assess and present the emerging digital production for P&T committees. Technology […]
I am not sure how I missed this (the conference is three years old!) but I see lots of familiar names. (Hi Chris H!) I am interested to hear more about BibleTech and see what those folks have to teach those of us interested in similar session at SBL. BibleTech:2011 […]
So there has been a LOT of discussion about how much the fact that SBL charged for projectors at the conference, some of it very humorous. In another post I commented that we really are focusing our blame on the wrong folks regarding the cost of the projectors. It is […]
I had the honor and privilege to host the TEDxPSU conference that occurred on 10/10/10. As host I was not given a slot to speak rather I had 60 seconds to transition from one speaker to the next. I decided to take the liberty of sneaking a talk in after […]
When I was working on my doctorate at Oxford I scanned ALL the existing photos of the scrolls at an amazing 300dpi for the first ever CD-ROM published by OUP, Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Reference Library. If anybody could be forgiven for missing the deadline to opt out of the Google […]
Heres the thing, we nerds like to think were inheriting the earth now that everyone is playing video games and carrying too many gadgets and stuck at their computers all day. The fact is, however, that the average consumer doesnt give a moofs fanny about whether their phone or tablet […]
See that little elephant in the bottom left corner of each post? Remember how I have mentioned the powerful note-taking and data collection tool Evernote? Well now you can clip and save bits of my blog that you think are important and worth remembering! Simply click on the button and […]